Vincent Massey High School celebrates year of high academic achievement

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Vincent Massey students have been flexing their academic muscles this year, gleaning awards, scholarships and bringing honours to their high school.

Graduate Dylan Keogh received three scholarships: the Variety Pat Riordan Fine Arts Scholarship, the Acting Out Grad Scholarship and the Class of ’81 Comty/Poole Character Scholarship.

The $1,000 Variety Pat Riordan Fine Arts Scholarship is awarded each spring to a student who is pursuing an education in either music or fine arts at a Manitoba college or university. Variety’s mandate is to fund programs and initiatives that inspire hope, enrich lives and build a better future for Manitoba’s children.

The $500 Acting Out Grad Scholarship is awarded to a student who displays how they express themselves through music or acting or how they’ve enriched their school and community culture by working behind the scenes to ensure these events go on.

The Class of ’81 Comty/Poole Character Scholarship is available to a graduating student who displays the qualities of being a good person, is helpful, reliable, dependable and a true friend as judged by their peers. The scholarship is based solely on character, not athletics or grades.

Meanwhile, students enrolled in the Advanced Placement program at Vincent Massey posted excellent results in provincial, national and international competitions.

AP Math

A total of 98 AP Math students wrote contests prepared by the University of Waterloo in each of the four grade levels from 9 to 12. Students who place in the top 25 per cent will receive certificates. Team results were provided by the top three scores in each contest and are as follows:

• Grade 9 (Pascal): Vincent Massey finished first in the zone (rural outside Winnipeg) and sixth in the province. Kade Turnbull, Nathan Fugelberg, Demiana Ekladious and Eric Lin will receive certificates.

• Grade 10 (Cayley): Vincent Massey finished first in the zone and 11th in the province. Andy Liao, Heejae Kim and Seth Friesen will receive certificates.

• Grade 11 (Fermat): Vincent Massey finished third in the zone and 23rd in the province. Elise Poole will receive a certificate.

• Grade 12 (Euclid): Vincent Massey finished first in the zone and third in the province. Haopeng (Samuel) Sun, Daniel Choi, Nabil Roberts and Cody Cherepuschak will receive certificates.

AP Physics

Massey’s AP Physics class participated in the Canadian Association of Physicists High School Prize Exam in April. Four of the school’s students placed in the top seven in the province: Daniel Choi (fourth), Jacob Wolfe (fifth), Cody Cherepuschak (sixth) and Nabil Roberts (seventh). The students were honoured during a ceremony at the University of Manitoba on June 3.

AP Biology

Massey students taking AP Biology participated in a national competition sponsored by the University of Toronto that included 4,137 students from across Canada and the U.S., and from as far away as Malaysia and Turkey.

Eleven Massey students received above-average scores, while six placed in the top 20 per cent of the competition.

Vincent Massey placed 47th out of 232 in the team competition and second among Manitoba schools.

Two students placed in the top 250. Cherepuschak will receive a National Biology Scholar certificate and attend the University of Toronto next year. Milad Khakbazan will also receive a certificate and attend the University of Manitoba next year.

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